Hal Leonard

 A gruffly poignant and darkly funny play, Ages of the Moon finds old friends Byron and Ames re-united by mutual desperation. Ames' marriage has broken down and he rings Byron in desperation. Byron travels for three days to see Ames, and over bourbon on ice, they sit, reflect and bicker until fifty years of love, friendship and rivalry are put to the test at the barrel of a gun.  "A shotgun blast of brilliance" --Irish Mail on Sunday.  "An understated triumph of a play, funny and moving" --The Sunday Times.   

When Graham and Annette, and Gus and Maria, the two winning couples of Meteor Television's popular lovers' reunion programme, Star-Crossed Sweethearts, head off for the romantic cruise they've been promised on board the Sovereign, little do they realise what adventures lie in wait over the horizon. Unknown to the couples, the "cruise" turns out to be artificially staged for the cameras on a moored ship, which the inept Meteor TV researcher Debbie has been put in charge of organising. It's not long before Debbie's own "ex" Marcus appears under innocent enough circumstances, and while some old flames prepare to rekindle, others soon look positively ready to explode. The situation rapidly accelerates when they realise that the ship is no longer moored and is drifting helplessly into the English Channel shipping lanes, endangering everybody in this black comedy of romance and rust on the high seas.  

Confused by Confucius? Wish Swift was swifter? Moby a bit quicker? Then prepare to enjoy another outrageous assault on the senses with over eighty of the greatest literary masterpieces brought humbly down to Earth. This fast-paced comedy flies through a crash course in Western Literature from The Iliad to Harry Potter, plus everything else you really should have read by now but couldn’t be bothered. Taking the form of a crash-course remedial English class, three actors playing a drama teacher, coach and an inept student-teacher all play their part in this tour de force of theatrical pyrotechnics. “Who knew that Homer was so funny – not Simpson, the other one?” –Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “Intertextuality can rarely have felt so frantic, or so funny.” –The Scotsman.   

The legendary football tall story about Achilles Jones.

The plot of this unusual comedy centres around a mother’s astonishing discovery that the effect of a prescribed sleeping draught is to make her mind and spirit slip away from her body. She uses this ‘gift’ to solve many of her family problems and at the same time provide herself with a little harmless fun. One of the author’s most endearing efforts.

A macabre comedy set in the suburban home of the Pimbles, who live in the shadow of imminent catastrophe. While Grandpa toils in the cellar on his corpses, the normal life of the family goes on from one fatality to the next. The imperturbable Mrs Pimble’s firm maternal management of affairs is one of the things which remain strong in this grotesque family situation.

The latest play from the award-winning author of Not Quite Jerusalem is set in the grounds of a decaying Victorian lunatic asylum scheduled for imminent demolition to provide housing. A second-rate film crew have arrived to make a promotional video for a would-be hit single, but events are complicated by the appearance of Tilly, a former patient who has been released into 'community care'. It quickly becomes clear that her visit is more than just a social call, and the film crew, hospital staff and patients are thrown into chaos by the events which follow. An endearing play, one which tackles the serious issues of mental health, housing and the darker side of the film industry while remaining a heartwarming comedy and a thoroughly entertaining evening.   

This provocative new comedy is about a group of desperate souls who come together in pursuit of a shared dream. It’s set in the ‘wannabe culture’, where everything is possible as long as you want it hard enough, and are willing to pay the price. Natasha is an actress but her latest role is going way too far for her boyfriend Ben. Guru theatre director Gavin is pushing the limits - but despite his reputation as an enfant terrible, he isn’t at all what he seems. Fellow actor Danny has a sexual appetite liable to land him in big trouble, while the producer Danielle is worried about the outrage Gavin’s production is sure to cause. And Writer Hannah has a story to tell, but does it still ring true? BAD JAZZ is a gratuitous farce that exploits and satirises modern theatre, asking the question, ‘how far are you prepared to go?’

“You know a true comic playwright has arrived when the audience start laughing before the actors tell the jokes” - The Guardian.

“I didn’t think that when I read the stage direction, ‘she performs oral sex’, that meant…for real…on stage, in front of a paying audience” - Bad Jazz.

Short comedy by Kenneth Horne

An outrageously funny farce set in the lobby and courtyard of a small hotel in the Middle East, where a group of British undercover agents (in a variety of unlikely disguises) are trying to weather a local military coup, while devising a plan to smuggle a young native prince out of danger. The bungling spies arouse the suspicions of the local military and we are off on a mad whirl of double-takes, sliding panels, missing bodies and mistaken identities - the perfect ingredients for a fast-moving and hilarious evening's entertainment.